Notice: as of October 2021, DTC has ceased all activities supporting the HWRF User community. For more details see the full announcement.
HWRF Components and Libraries
The HWRF system consists of runtime scripts and source code for the HWRF Utilities, MPIPOM-TC, NCEP Coupler, GFDL Vortex Tracker, WRF, WPS, GSI, and UPP. Customized versions of all of these components are available from this site.
Additional libraries, as described in the HWRF Users Guide, are required.
Update on reduced HWRF v4.0a capabilities
The Hurricane WRF v4.0a public release will have reduced capabilities due to format and library changes impacting input datasets. Starting in January 2021, an update was made to the bufrlib version, impacting input data for data assimilation. Additionally, starting with GFSv16, output will be in NetCDF format, which is not consistent with the released capabilities of HWRFv4.0a. GRIB2 data may be used. Implications of these changes are that HWRFv4.0a cannot run with data assimilation or vortex initialization. Historical cases may still be run using legacy input data formats.
Please check Known Issues and Fixes for more information.
